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Welcome to our practical checklist to help you prepare your business for what is coming next as we adapt to the implications on our lives, both professionally and personally, due to the coronavirus pandemic and resulting crisis. Here we look at finance and resourcing....

Welcome to our practical checklist to help you prepare your business for what is coming next as we adapt to the implications on our lives, both professionally and personally, due to the coronavirus pandemic and resulting crisis. Here we look at Operations and...

Welcome to our practical checklist to help you prepare your business for what is coming next as we adapt to the implications on our lives, both professionally and personally, due to the coronavirus pandemic and resulting crisis. Use the links below to navigate around...

I have always advised my clients to claim child benefit, even if they are a high earner and there will be the inevitable claw back in their tax assessment (the high income child benefit tax charge).  My thinking was not just predicated on any limited cash flow...

Can employees reclaim any expenses? On Monday 16 March 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the public to work from home where possible in an attempt to contain the ongoing coronavirus outbreak in the UK. For more than 1.7 million people it was business as usual,...

The current Coronavirus measures have resulted in many employees working from home. The following considers the taxation implications on the additional payments which may be received from employers and on the additional costs which the employee may occur. Payments...

Together with other members of the UK200Group, we have been asking our clients to contribute data to a nationwide survey about how their businesses were faring before the lockdown and what has happened since. Alarmingly, this research shows that 528,373* people in the...

A reminder that perpetrators of cyber-crime have not been furloughed... There have been welcome reports of a drop in recorded crime during the Coronavirus pandemic. How could there not be, after all most of us are at home. However this article is to remind you that...

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) portal opened on Monday (20 April 2020) and so 5 days in, we caught up with Lisa Greenwood our Head of Payroll, to find out how things have been going. Since the lockdown commenced, Lisa has been working closely with our...

The impact of COVID-19 threatens to be felt by the business community long after the current crisis abates and as we grow to understand how the social distancing rules will be relaxed, as business owners - our thoughts turn to how we rebuild our business and what form...